PawNexus
Nutrition & Rx Auditor
Scan a pet food or prescription label and get a breed-specific safety audit in seconds. Currently in testing; launching soon.
Get launch updatesThe problem
Pet food labels are dense, inconsistent, and easy to misread. Marketing claims on the front of the bag rarely line up with what the ingredient list and guaranteed analysis actually say. Worse, an ingredient that's fine for one breed can be a problem for another — and an ingredient that's fine for a healthy pet can be dangerous for one with kidney disease, diabetes, or food allergies.
Generic search engines and AI chatbots can't safely tell you "is this food OK for my pet" — they don't know your pet's breed, age, or medical history, and they hallucinate ingredient effects.
What Nutrition & Rx Auditor will do
- Scan a photo of any pet food label (or Rx label).
- Parse ingredients, guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, feeding directions.
- Convert guaranteed analysis to dry matter basis (DMB) so you can compare wet and dry foods on equal footing.
- Audit against your pet's profile — breed, age, weight, known conditions (kidney disease, diabetes, urinary, allergies, GI sensitivity).
- Flag ingredients that are concerning for your pet specifically, with explanations and sources.
What it analyzes
- Protein quality and source — named meat vs. by-products, percentage on DMB
- Carbohydrate load — important for diabetic and overweight pets
- Phosphorus and sodium — critical for renal and cardiac patients
- Common allergens — chicken, beef, dairy, wheat, soy, grain trigger profiles
- Breed-specific concerns — taurine for cats and certain dog breeds, copper for Bedlingtons, urate for Dalmatians
- Life-stage appropriateness — puppy/kitten, adult, senior, all-life-stages
- Recall history — flags brands or specific products with recent FDA recalls
Powered by a curated nutrition manifest
The auditor cross-references a curated NUTRITION manifest of 1,000+ pet food products with ingredient-level data, plus condition-specific override rules. This is a deterministic grounding layer — the LLM cannot invent ingredient effects it doesn't have data for.
Deep link from Pet Passport
If you have a PawNexus Pet Passport, the "Check Food Safety" deep link will pre-fill your pet's profile so the audit is personalized in one tap.